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- Pot should be legalized but that is not likely. Big drug comapanies will pay off the government to keep people buying their man made chemical filled drugs. They make drugs to combat the side effects of other drugs and more to fix the side effects of those drugs and it keeps spinnin and spinnin like that. So why would they let the gov. legalize a drug with minimal side effects that is natural like GOD make it? Look back at history books and what every culture in the past has used as medicine...most all will show pot and most mutilpe ways to use pot for medicine and guess what you don't have to take another drug to minimize the size effects!
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- I think you need to get your facts checked. If it is so terrible for memory than why are they using it for alzheimers b/c studies show it helps slow the process. So try that one again. Also there have never been any studies showing that pit is harmful to those who smoke it or those around them...that is cigaretts! Try again on the only 5% smoke regulary...try much higher..many who would not ever admit it (those in gov. jobs) for fear of losing their lively hoods. So explain why this drug that is used in many countries and was in our own USA for medical purposes should still be banned. If a natural drug is banned such as this one that has many medical puropses then why not bann all chemical man made drugs. Oh that's right drug companies that charge an arm and a leg for drugs that give you many terrible side effects would falter.
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- Liberal-- to be free from government.
I thought conservatives like the idea of less government. Oh wait,.. thats unless we are talking about imposing conservative morals and religion on everyone else. My mistake. - Reply to this comment
- Just allowing farmers to grow hemp (the non psychoactive, industrial variety) would greatly increase American farmers capacity to operate independently from the government. But the petroleum based plastic manufacturing industry, paper manufacturing industry, as well as the cotton industry will be just a handful of the lobbies that will try and keep that from happening. The list of lobbies against ending prohibition is a mile long and they resist the will of the people at every turn.
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- Too scared is more like it. Probably worried about getting found out.
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- Current laws have not stopped people from attempting to drive impaired. Current laws do not persecute all alcohol consumers just because some people drink and drive. Alcohol is not illegal and is not controlled by gangs and cartels. What makes you think people haven't been driving around stoned thus far? The fact it is futile to legislate against bad decisions. The bottom line is people need to refuse to except the excuses that dumb people present once they are in trouble. The pot did not make you do it. The booze did not make you do it. You did it. It time for more personal responsibility. If you are intoxicated and you act like a moron chances are you were already a moron.
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- Most people I know who smoke pot are 50 or older, most have families, have their own house and car(s) and have been steadly and successfully employed for years.
If your friends are stupid they started that way. - Reply to this comment
- Okay. From the top.
1. In case you haven't noticed, there is plenty of pot in our nations schools.
2. Who goes to rehab for pot? Exclude from your answer those who are forced to enroll via the court system.
3. The violence associated with cannabis is perpetrated by the cartels and gangs that control the market. Stoners are not violent. You cannot in one breath claim that the consumers of cannabis are lazy and sloth like and then turn around and claim that they would become out of control, wild and crazy. Its a contradiction.
4. When prohibition ends you will not have to worry about running into a stoner puffing away in restaurants, theaters, on aircraft, in hospitals, or at work. Most of those places will not allow you to smoke anything as a policy. As far as smoking cannabis at work is concerned, you can't drink alcohol on the job either but it still happens. Those people are usually terminated at the employers discretion.
5. The houses burning down all over the place is one of those imaginary, 'what if' arguments that some people come up with to scare everyone. The only houses I ever heard about burning down are the ones with meth labs.
41% huh. Sounds like a minority vote to me. We still practice democracy in this country and you have just been voted out.
The only reason you are seeing violence in Mendocino is because the cartels and gangs see legal cannabis cultivators as competition. They deal with competition historically by robbing and killing their competitors. As far as the ecological damage is concerned, this only happens because those who cultivate have to do so clandestinely. They are forced to be more concerned with avoiding authorities then with avoiding damage to the ecology. Besides that the cartels who run the operations in our nations parks are the ones perpetrating real damage.
Kids are getting their cannabis from drug dealers not dispensaries. This is where they are more likely to try the harder stuff. You see, if you think like an illegal drug dealer for a moment, you will find that your main objective is money. They know how to market their product and manipulate young people. First, you sell a kid pot. Then you make available other drugs which have an overwhelming capacity to make that kid a long term customer. That is the goal. An addict of something like meth for instance.
Those who want to end the failed and costly policy of prohibition are not looking back to 1936 to make their point. They are looking at a reality that has been emphasized by the earlier prohibition of alcohol. The only reason reefer madness keeps coming into the discussion is because the pro drug war folks keep citing those same tired and irrational arguments and hysteria demonstrated in that film.
Yes, we know how gangs make their money. The only reason it is so irresistibly lucrative for gangs is because it is illegal. You see, the higher the risk (illegal drugs) the higher the reward (money). If you can't understand that then you do not understand capitalism the way you should.
Again, no one is saying that kids should consume cannabis. Where is that coming from? All that needs to be done to legalize, tax and regulate cannabis consumption is to look up the laws concerning alcohol. Copy and paste. Done. If you break those laws by acting irresponsible then you deserve to suffer the consequences. - Reply to this comment
- It most definitely could be a money issue. With taxes being raised at every turn, why not legalize pot, allow farmers to grow it legally to reduce their federal subsidies and tax the sales similar to cigarettes. Just think how much law enforcement dollars could be saved not worrying about pot crossing the border.
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- stupider?, I'm not afraid to say I work in the executive world and partake myself, but I have never used the word "stupider". Is that a word anyway? Whose smokin' again? lol!
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- Okay. From the top.
1. In case you haven't noticed, there is plenty of pot in our nations schools.
2. Who goes to rehab for pot? Exclude from your answer those who are forced to enroll via the court system.
3. The violence associated with cannabis is perpetrated by the cartels and gangs that control the market. Stoners are not violent. You cannot in one breath claim that the consumers of cannabis are lazy and sloth like and then turn around and claim that they would become out of control, wild and crazy. Its a contradiction.
4. When prohibition ends you will not have to worry about running into a stoner puffing away in restaurants, theaters, on aircraft, in hospitals, or at work. Most of those places will not allow you to smoke anything as a policy. As far as smoking cannabis at work is concerned, you can't drink alcohol on the job either but it still happens. Those people are usually terminated at the employers discretion.
5. The houses burning down all over the place is one of those imaginary, 'what if' arguments that some people come up with to scare everyone. The only houses I ever heard about burning down are the ones with meth labs.
41% huh. Sounds like a minority vote to me. We still practice democracy in this country and you have just been voted out.
The only reason you are seeing violence in Mendocino is because the cartels and gangs see them as competition. They deal with competition historically by robbing and killing their competitors. As far as the ecological damage is concerned, this only happens because those who cultivate have to do so clandestinely. They are forced to be more concerned with avoiding authorities then with avoiding damage to the ecology. Besides that the cartels who run the operations in our nations parks are the ones perpetrating real damage.
Kids are getting their cannabis from drug dealers not dispensaries. This is where they are more likely to try the harder stuff. You see, if you think like an illegal drug dealer for a moment, you will find that your main objective is money. The know how to market their product and manipulate young people. First, you sell a kid pot. Then you make available other drugs which have an overwhelming capacity to make that kid a long term customer. That is the goal. An addict of something like meth for instance. - Reply to this comment
- "They poll 944 adults and come up with 41% of all Americans want to legalize pot. Trouble is some people will read this article and think it's credible."
There have been several polls this year by various polling companies all showing that support for legalizing marijuana has risen to over 40%. This is just one of many. Support for legalizing marijuana was in the mid thirties a few years ago. It's been rising steadily since 1992. Most of this probably has to do with the fact that people born before marijuana became popular are slowly but surely dying off. Each year close to 2 million of them will die. When you look at more detailed poll results with age demographics data, what you see is that the highest levels of support are always among people 18 to 29, and the lowest levels of support are among those 65 and older. The vast majority of people 65 and older oppose legalization, and most will respond on polls that they "strongly oppose" it rather than just "somewhat oppose it." The baby boomers and younger people are far less opposed to legalization. The oldest boomer is now 63. As more of the "pre-boomers" die off support for legalizing marijuana will continue to rise. - Reply to this comment
- "They poll 944 adults and come up with 41% of all Americans want to legalize pot. Trouble is some people will read this article and think it's credible."
There have been several polls this year by various polling companies all showing that support for legalizing marijuana has risen to over 40%. This is just one of many. Support for legalizing marijuana was in the mid thirties a few years ago. It's been rising steadily since 1992. Most of this probably has to do with the fact that people born before marijuana became popular are slowly but surely dying off. Each year close to 2 million of them will die. When you look at more detailed poll results with age demographics data, what you see is that the highest levels of support are always among people 18 to 29, and the lowest levels of support are among those 65 and older. The vast majority of people 65 and older oppose legalization, and most will respond on polls that they "strongly oppose" it rather than just "somewhat oppose it." The baby boomers and younger people are far less opposed to legalization. The oldest boomer is now 63. As more of the "pre-boomers" die off support for legalizing marijuana will continue to rise. - Reply to this comment
- Why doesn't the scale on the left go to 100? Makes poll look biased.. IMO
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- On their last poll where they said only 31% supported legalization, it was only 31% until they asked if it should be taxed as well. Then 7% more were for it for a total of 38% for legalization. Several more polls have come out this year with support in the low to mid forties. One Zogby poll had 52% supporting legalization, but that result is so out of line with other poll results that it should be ignored. It's a pretty safe bet that now over 40% of voting aged U.S. adults support marijuana legalization.
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- The question should not be should marijuana be legalized
but rather: Should marijuana remain completely unregulated, untaxed and controlled by criminals?
Alcohol prohibition didn't stop people from buying and
using alcohol. It just stopped them from buying their
alcohol from legal, regulated and taxed sources. - Reply to this comment
- This poll is useless - the numbers don't even add up to 100% even though yes, no, and don't know pretty much cover all possible respondses. Look at 1979 - the total is only 65%! Where are the other 35% of respondends? Too high to respond?
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- Legalizing pot will present the same types of problems as alcohol intoxication, especially in the context of people driving while being high. Alcohol or marijuana intoxication dulls the reflexes and senses disabling a driver from being lucid and focused. We've seen the results of irresponsible drinkers who drive; irresponsible pot smokers who drive will eventually lead to more accidents, more injured and maimed and killed. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
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- Current laws have not stopped people from attempting to drive impaired. Current laws do not persecute all alcohol consumers just because some people drink and drive. Alcohol is not illegal and is not controlled by gangs and cartels. What makes you think people haven't been driving around stoned thus far? The fact it is futile to legislate against bad decisions. The bottom line is people need to refuse to except the excuses that dumb people present once they are in trouble. The pot did not make you do it. The booze did not make you do it. You did it. It time for more personal responsibility. If you are intoxicated and you act like a moron chances are you were already a moron.
- I think you need to quit taking what the gov. is telling you and read actual studies for yourself before you make rediculous comments like this one. Read up on what marijuana actual does to people and the side effects b/c you sound like a moron putting out there what everyone not educated on mary jane put out. Matter of fact why don't you try it, relax and learn.
- There are basically two things working against this bill ever passing. 1 - It makes too much sense & 2 - it's what the voters want and we all know that that isn't a good enough reason...
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- Man, with your diet taken into consideration I think smoking cannabis would be the least of your health issues. Way to promote that stereotype buddy.
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